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A new report from Pittsburgh’s Citizens Police Review Board paints a troubling picture of the behavior of four undercover officers during and after an incident at Kopy’s Bar on the South Side in 2018. According to the report, released Tuesday, Detectives David Honick, Brian Burgunder, David Lincoln and Brian Martin consumed dozens of alcoholic drinks — ranging from 7 to 19 each — while surveilling an individual they believed to be involved in the drug trade. The officers remained at the bar after the target of their operation left, and they later got into a fight with members of the ...

TribLIVE's Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. This week, city Controller Michael Lamb released an audit of the board itself, the first outside scrutiny of the board since it was created in 1997. “As the conversations around policing reform continue, Pittsburgh is well served by the Citizen Police Review Board,” Lamb said it a statement. The audit includes 17 recommendations to improve the board, including changing the way members of the volunteer board are nominated to serve. It also called for an increase in funding...

Pittsburgh Citizen Police Review Board gets good marks in audit Share Updated: 7:15 PM EDT May 12, 2021 Share Updated: 7:15 PM EDT May 12, 2021 Hide Transcript Show Transcript CITY CONTROLLER IS SAYING ABOUT THAT AUDIT. REPORTER: THIS FIRST EVER PERFORMANCE AUDIT OF PITTSBURGH’S POLICE REVIEW BOARD , THE CITY CONTROLLER GIVES THEM GOOD MARKS. >> WE FEEL STRONGLY THAT THE CITY OF PITTSBURGH HAS BEEN WELL SERVED BY THE CITIZEN POLICE REVIEW BOARD. REPORTER: ON ACCESS TO PITTSBURGH POLICE BODYCAM.", HE IS RECOMMENDING CITY COUNCIL CODIFY RULES FOR CONSISTENT ACCESS...

It is important to follow the rules — especially when enforcing the rules is your job. That is why the idea of Pittsburgh police officers drinking on the job is enough to draw attention. Reports arose that a group of 17 officers who were working on election night ended up drinking in a South Side bar later in the evening. OK, now let’s have a little perspective. The idea isn’t that the officers did anything terrible while they were at the bar. This isn’t a situation like the Kopy’s incident in October 2018, when four plainclothes officers spent hours drinking before getting into a f...

TribLIVE's Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. The Citizens Police Review Board will not dig any further into allegations several Pittsburgh Police officers imbibed while on duty on election night last year, the board has decided. The Nov. 3 incident involved a group of 17 officers who were working an extended shift the night of the election, CPRB Executive Director Beth Pittinger told the board Tuesday. All officers were on 12-hour shifts Nov. 2 through Nov. 8 in case of any unrest surrounding the election. The night tur...